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While at TechEd 2006, I caught up with some of the folks who are innovating Community principles and implementation in the UK, from Girly Geek to Next Generation User Group. Here we talk about community, why it matters, what is needed to grow community,
etc. The interviewees are also Niners. Tune in and meet some passionate members of the UK developer community who are among those who are taking Community to the next level.

﻿So Charles has to travel to Spain to talk to people from the UK about community when he could have attended a
DotNetUsers meeting in Seattle.

Where were you when the Seattle dotnet community needed you Charles?

Uhm, that's pretty dramatic, Eagle...

I travelled to Spain to take part inTech Ed 2006 (as mentioned in the description of the video). The folks in this conversation are community innovators who happen to be from the UK and also attending Tech Ed 2006 at the same time as me and my camera.

Eagle, as usual, I am not following your logic. How can I help a defunct (or not) ASP.NET user group by walking over to building 43? What's your point? What do you mean? What do you think I can do about it? And, most importantly, what does any of this
have to do with this video?

End the hijack, Eagle. Contact me offline with a mail explaining what you mean.

Eagle, it sounds to me as though the usergroup that you were part of, and failed to continue just needed someone to spend a bit of time letting people know about it and getting the community to run it themselves. Part of being a community driven is that the
community support each other and sharing the workload, whether Microsoft and other large corporates get involved or not. This begs the question in your area about whether the community is really there and whether there was or is a better less time intensive
way of running it. Have a think... maybe you could be their new community leader.

A word of advice to any community group from me is let the community run it together, spread the work, spread the joy and most of all have fun with it!

Tim, good to hear from you and I hope that the video entices you back to the community scene

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